There’s one more option for tethering and it involves physically connecting your Android phone to another device with a USB cable. Next, you head back to the Hotspot menu and turn on USB tethering.

Learn how to setup and use a WiFi mobile hotspot or tethering on the Galaxy S9. Internet sharing is a helpful feature so try it today.

Avid Android users may be disappointed by the fact that the Android 6.0 Marshmallow update allows mobile carriers to block tethering by default.

Knowing how to turn your smartphone into a wi-fi hotspot is a good life skill to have. And it's pretty simple to do.

Hotspot not working at the coffee shop? No free Wi-Fi at the airport? Let your Android phone come to the rescue: $25 app Tether lets your laptop tap your phone's wireless data goodness.

And even better: you can turn your Android phone into a portable wifi hotspot as well. You can see the tethering and wifi hotspot features in the screenshots above.

Android/Windows: PdaNet makes the software that makes iPhone-to-laptop tethering kind of easy. They've now released an Android app that's even easier to install, hook up, and use to get a net ...

Not content to provide us with ClockworkMod Recovery and other fine hacks, Koush just made a free USB tethering app available for Android aptly called ClockworkMod Tether Alpha. While it's not the ...